Do you know what is in our school library?
You may or may not have noticed that recently around our country there is a growing concern over the content of reading material/books that have been made available to students in our school libraries. Social media is aflame with raging commentary from both sides of the argument. One side is extremely worried that the content of these books is very inappropriate for students. The other side finds the content educational and appropriate but blames the other side that they are banning books. There are many examples of these arguments all over our country. But make no mistake, this argument is FRONT and CENTER within our Pine-Richland school district.
This blog IS NOT about banning books, as some opponents of PR Kids First may believe. This blog is about sharing the content of the books in our school library and allowing the community to make an informed decision as to whether the content of these books is appropriate in our schools.
WARNING
EXPLICIT CONTENT FOLLOWS, NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN.
Here are some examples of books found in Pine-Richland School library.
Push - by Sapphire. This book has explicit sexual activities including incest and molestation; sexual nudity:
“Daddy sick me, disgust me, but still he sex me up. I nawshus in my stomach but hot tight in my twat and I think I want it back, the smell of the bedroom, the hurt-he slap my face till it sting and my ears sing separate songs from each other, call me names, pump my pussy in out in out in out awwww I come. He bite me hard. A hump! A hump! He slam his hips into me HARD. I cream pain he come. He slap my thighs like cowboys do horses on TV. Shiver, Orgasm in me, his body shaking grab me, call me Fat Mama, Big Hole! You LOVE it! Say you love it! I wanna say I DON’T. I wanna say I’m a Chile. But my pussy popping like grease in frying pan. He slam in me again. His dick soft. He start sucking my tittie.
…Then my body take me over again, like sticks after earthquake, shiver me, I come again. My body not mine, I hate it coming.
Afterward I go bafroom. I smear shit on my face.” 1
More book excerpts can be found at this link: www.ratedbooks.org
All Boys Aren’t Blue - by George M Johnson. This book contains sexual nudity; sexual activities including sexual assault:
“He reached his hand down and pulled out my dick. He quickly went to giving me head. I just sat back and enjoyed it as I could tell he was, too. He was also definitely experienced in what he was doing, because he went to work quite confidently. He then came up and asked me if I wanted to try on him. I said sure. I began and he said, "Watch your teeth." I didn't want to let him know I was inexperienced. So, I slowed down and took my time and luckily got into a good rhythm. He didn't know I was a virgin, and I did my best to act dominant like my favorite porn star. I was an actor, and this was my movie.” 2
More book excerpts can be found at this link: www.ratedbooks.org
Beyond Magenta - by Susan Kuklin. Contains explicit sexual activities including pedophilia
“From six up, I used to kiss other guys in my neighborhood, make out with them, and perform oral sex on them. I liked it. I used to love oral. And I touched their you-know-whats. We were really young but that’s what we did.” The story goes on to describe pedophiles masturbating. 3
More book excerpts can be found at this link: www.ratedbooks.org
Out of Darkness - by Ashley Hope Perez. Contains explicit sexual activities including graphic sexual child molestation:
“Henry was staring right at her. He grinned. “You thought you fooled me, but I fooled you," he said. "I knew you were awake.” He closed the door behind him and locked it. He had put locks on all the bedroom doors the week before. When Estella asked him why, he said simply, "It's how a house should be." She hadn't protested. Henry came to the side of her bed and pulled back the covers. Naomi sat up quickly and scrambled backward. "Shh," he said. He took one of her hands in his and squeezed it. “Come on over here.” He pulled her to her feet, close to him. He shifted in his pajamas, and the part of him that made him a man stuck out, reddish purple and frightening. She had never seen one before except on a baby. This was different. He lifted her hand to his mouth and licked it. Then he lowered her hand down and closed it around the hardness. His hand moved hers. His left hand gripped her shoulder, pressing her head tight against the hard, flat plane of his stomach. She watched her hand move back and forth like it didn't belong to her. In the distance, she heard the train pass. A moment later, the thing leaped. Henry's whole body shuddered, and a hot mess lay across her palm and between her fingers.” 4
More book excerpts can be found at this link: www.ratedbooks.org
Lucky - by Alice Sebold. contains obscene excerpts involving sexual assault / battery; sexual activities; sexual nudity:
“Stop looking at me," he said. "Shut your eyes. Stop shaking."
"I can't."
"Stop it or you'll be sorry."
I did. My focus became acute. I stared harder than ever at him. He began to knead his fist against the opening of my vagina. Inserted his fingers into it, three or four at a time. Something tore. I began to bleed there. I was wet now. It made him excited. He was intrigued. As he worked his whole fist up into my vagina and pumped it, I went into my brain..” 5
More book excerpts can be found at this link: www.ratedbooks.org
This blog could go on and share many more books of similar nature, but I believe you get the point.
Books of this nature are also found in public libraries. That provides parents, who so desire to expose their children to these books, impartially an avenue to do so.
Recently, our opponents (togetherforPR.org) placed multiple advertisements on social media. Look here at their ads and read what they say. They are on social media pushing to NORMALIZE books of this nature in school libraries! Their position of “never ban books” is a hoax. Parents should NOT support these people and we have placed the red text over their images to remind people to not vote for them.
A Pine-Richland mother stated: “I do not want my children free to read the garbage they (togetherforPR.org) want to push”.
These books just excerpted in this blog above are the books that our opponents express freedom to read in our school libraries: And many more !!
This now lays out the decision in front of parents in the Pine-Richland School District.
As members of the PR School Board Pine-Richland parents have our commitment to do everything in our power on the board to ensure school transparency with parents and protect students from things, in our school, that are obscene and sexually explicit. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, get out and vote on November 7 for
Leslie Miller - District #2
Mike Wiethorn - District #3
Phil Morrissette - District #3.
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Footnote:
1 - Sapphire, Push (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1996) p 99
2 - George M Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020)
3 - Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta (Candlewick Press 2014) p 80
4 - Ashley Hope Perez, Out of Darkness (Carolrhoda Lab 2015) p 68
5 - Alice Sebold, Lucky (Hachette Book Group 2002) p 7
